Doomsday foresight

There were several aftershocks after that, but they were not serious. At most, they felt the lights shaking. Just after lunch, they heard a loudspeaker broadcast that a magnitude [-] earthquake had occurred hundreds of kilometers away from them at sea.That location happened to be in the sea area between the Wa Kingdom and the Chao Kingdom.

And just when they were in the courtyard, the tsunami caused by the earthquake hit the Three Kingdoms. Because of the distance from the North Korea, there were many mountains, and the damage from the earthquake was large and the damage from the tsunami was small. countless houses.

The whole family turned on the TV and watched the news reports, and they were all a little silent. They all felt the earthquake very strongly. It is estimated that they all had a magnitude of five to six, and the houses had collapsed, let alone those nearby.

Long Province was also affected, especially near the epicenter, and many houses collapsed.

Soon the country sent rescuers, and they watched the news every day to see how many people were rescued today, and how many people donated money and materials.My heart is very heavy.

I don't know if someone has discovered something, but there is a wave of panic buying in many places around the world.A month later, things got serious. The state intervened to quell the rumors, and cracked down on a group of people who took advantage of the chaos to hoard and resell at high prices, as well as those who took advantage of the chaos to rob.Then a new round of crackdowns began.

The life in the village seemed to be very peaceful, and Zhao Sheng was the only one who died in this earthquake. Regardless of the mentality of the village, they finally arranged an empty yard for Zhao Sheng's wife and three children.Later, Jinxi heard his second aunt and grandma cooking in the kitchen and said some bad things, as if a man came in and out of Zhao Sheng's wife's house at night.

Later, Jinxi didn't have to listen secretly anymore, because Zhao Sheng's daughter-in-law was no longer shameless, and her affairs with other men were no secret, and the people in the village were very annoyed by this. , if a family does something embarrassing, the whole family will crusade. Although the concept of the family is not as deep as before, if you do something offensive to the village, people will poke the spine, so the atmosphere of Yejia Village has always been good. I didn't think much about it, and now there is a Zhao Sheng.

The people in the village still know her character. If she finds someone to marry, everyone will say at most that Zhao's life and death are not worth it, but now this has made the people in the village annoyed.Some aggressive women in the village came to yell at the door and wanted her to get out of Yejia Village, or to keep up with her duties, but unfortunately it didn't work. Shameless, pulling her clothes to take off her clothes, as long as the man persuaded her, she would lean on her. I have never seen such a shameless person.

Later, the village had no choice but to simply ignore her, and they all stayed away, even walking around, for fear of getting a little bit of talking about her, and sometimes the spittle star can really drown people.If the man in the village has anything to do with her, he will be warned and beaten by the elders. Gradually, even men with crooked thoughts dare not come forward, but the woman doesn't care. As long as the weather is warmer, she will go to the nearby villages. Sometimes I go for several days without leaving home.

There were two times when Jinxi watched the three children of the Zhao family dressed in tatters, the eldest daughter pulled her younger siblings away from the crowd, her mouth was pursed and her eyes were dull and dead.It was an eight-year-old girl. The children of the poor have long been in charge of their families and become sensible.The people in the village looked at the third sister as pitiful, but they didn't dare to mess with her, as it would be troublesome if they got involved with her mother.

The weather is much hotter today, and the paddy field is a bit dry. Mr. Ye went out to wander around the fields for a few days, and when he came back, he asked his second son to find a professional well-driller to dig a deep-water well.

Every household here has a well, and the water source is good. The water comes out 30 meters above the ground. In the past, there were pressurized wells, and every household carried water in the house. These years have been changed, and an electric water pump is installed, and a pipe is connected. It is very convenient to pull it up when using it.

But this time the Ye family drilled a deep well.It is still the kind of well that is lifted up with a bucket. Now few people dig this kind of well, especially if there are children in the family, they are afraid that the child will fall.

But this time the old man insisted.And it's not easy to fight, at least 5 yuan.If Jiang Chen hadn't mailed back another [-] yuan, they would have no place to borrow it.Even so, the money of the two families is gone.

It's just that Jinxi was even more worried when he saw the 2 yuan in the passbook and the phone calls that he couldn't get through. No matter how stupid he was, he understood that the army would not give soldiers so much allowance, and even rewards would not be given every year.Now he really doubts whether Jiang Chen is going to serve as a soldier.And why can't the phone get through all the time.

Grandpa could obviously see something too. Seeing the money in the passbook, he was silent for a long time.

In the end, the deep well was dug. It was located under the southwest wall facing the house. There was a persimmon tree in the northwest corner, which was planted when Jinxi was two years old. Maybe Jinxi was the hope of the family, and his parents gave him more At that time, they couldn’t be at home often, and every time they came back, they brought a bunch of delicious and fun things. When he was two years old, his father bought frozen persimmons. There used to be pears at home, and they were frozen at home, so they didn’t have to go to the street in winter. Buy, it was the first time Jinxi ate frozen persimmons. He couldn’t eat too much at a young age, so he thought it was very delicious. Not long after he could talk, he said “eat persimmons” and “eat persimmons”. Knowing who told him that persimmons grow on trees, he talked about planting trees and eating persimmons every year.

Father Ye is a child-loving person. In the spring of the second year, he went to get a persimmon tree and raised it. In order to bear fruit early, he also got a six-year-old tree. The seller told him that it would definitely bear fruit in a year.There were no fruits in the first year, and only a few leaves grew in the second year. Because I have never planted persimmon trees before, I didn’t know much about them. I only found out after asking. It can grow at a low temperature of minus [-] degrees, but it can reach minus [-] degrees in the coldest winter here, which is obviously frozen.

Father Ye was a little disappointed, but Jinxi had already forgotten about asking for persimmon trees, not to mention that he could eat the frozen persimmons bought by his parents every winter, so he didn't ask for them anymore.

The persimmon tree has always been alive, but it doesn't grow fruit. Year after year, the tree has become much stronger.The height is also ten meters. Maybe I have adapted to the relationship. The leaves on the tree are always very lush.Although it doesn't work.

When my parents were there, I said that I would cut it down and plant apricot trees or sand fruits, but in the end I was reluctant, because it is not easy to grow so thick.After they left, Jinxi wouldn't cut it down, even if the tree didn't bear fruit and took up space in the yard, he wouldn't cut it down, because it was the memory left by his parents to Jinxi.

There is a cement manhole cover on the thick well head of the water tank. The manhole cover is very heavy and cannot be moved by two to three hundred catties per person. A pavilion was built with wood, and there was a hanging lock on the shelf. The bottom of the west wall around the well was wiped with cement. A hook is hooked on the manhole cover, and two people can pull the manhole cover away, which also prevents people from falling, and it is very laborious to use the wheel to fetch water.However, the water quality is very good. Drinking it is sweet and cold, as if freezing your teeth. It is very deep groundwater.

After the well was finished, a bucket was brought up for everyone to drink and taste, and then it was pressed there. Mr. Ye even put away the iron chain that pulled the well cover, and looked at it every morning, praying in his heart that the well would not be used.

On the Sunday after the well was repaired, there was a heavy rain, which drenched the somewhat dry ground. That day, Mr. Ye drank two more glasses of wine than usual.

Many of the vegetables grown in the yard have yielded fruit. This time, we planted a lot. The miso at home is growing very well because of the weather. When the cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, and beans in the yard grow to a certain extent, Jinxi will follow Grandma Ye to pick them. Some of them are dried in the sun and some of them are put into sauce tanks to be pickled. Such pickles can be eaten for a year without spoiling.Even longer.I used to do it every year, but this year I did more.I used up a small pot of miso.

After that rain, the weather became hotter without a trace of cloud, and the fields that had been wet were dry again. Every day when I came to Jinxi, I would carry water to irrigate the vegetable fields, and they often dried up before noon.

The dry fields are fine, but there is not much water in the reservoir, and there is no supply in the paddy fields. Because of the release of water, several families almost fought. It seemed to be hot all of a sudden. It was just like a fire in June. It seems that there is less water vapor here, and there is no sweating even in the sun, and the dry people are directly roasted black.Jinxi is not fair anymore, her exposed skin has turned dark, her face is fine, she put on a big straw hat early on, but her hands are really dark.

Watching the situation in the south from the TV is even worse than here. In June, it has reached 38 degrees, and the temperature is rising every day. In addition, the city is like a steam oven with heavy water vapor. Many people suffer from heat stroke.

Compared with them here, as long as they don’t bask in the sun, it’s much better. The only downside is that you can’t wear short sleeves, otherwise you will get sunburned. Some conditions such as itching and other hypersensitivity to ultraviolet rays.Some of them were covered in layers of skin, and couldn't even leave the house.

The Jinxi house was originally surrounded by water bubbles, but in fact it is low-lying, formed by accumulated water every year. In the past, some aquatic plants would grow inside, but now there is no water left.

Because the vegetable garden has to be watered three times a day in Jinxi, the growth is not bad. When the beans are long enough, they are picked off, steamed in a pan and then dried. There is only one advantage of the sun. Be careful and it will break.I don’t know if it’s due to the lack of sunlight, but as long as the watering keeps up, the vegetables will grow quickly, and the tomatoes and eggplants are also big, but Jinxi needs to water it frequently, which is very tiring, because the fruits grow large, and Jinxi needs more water. When it was hot, he had to cover the vegetable field with a curtain. The weather was too hot, and he dared not let his grandmother out. Several old people in the village had already fallen ill, and one of them passed away because of old age.

After these two months, for the vegetable garden, Jinxi is black and thin.It is estimated that the former classmates did not know each other after seeing it.But hard work pays off. At least few vegetable fields in the village can catch up with theirs. Some have given up. I am too tired. I might as well take care of Datian when I have that time.

He can no longer take care of the work in the Jinxi family's big field, and the corn and soybeans next to the second uncle's house are almost dry, and the production will definitely be reduced without water.The sweet potatoes and potatoes planted next to the paddy fields are better, because they are next to the paddy fields, and there is some water in the ground. Potatoes and sweet potatoes are still drought-tolerant and grow down, which is better than corn and beans.

The village is raising funds to dig wells these days. There is really no water in Datian. They want to dig wells in the fields. There is still a lot of groundwater here. If they dig wells and water them once in the morning and evening, they can save as much as they can.

The land of Jinxi’s family is next to the land of my second uncle’s, which covers more than 30 mu. There are at least three wells, which may not be enough. Several wells in the village have already dried up.

Jinxi's family had no money, so at the end of the day, if they got it, they would dig a well and save as much as they could. They had a lot of land, and saving a few acres was enough to survive.

There are quite a few families who think this way. If several families are close to each other to drill wells together, it will be good for each family to save one or two acres. The surrounding villages are all less populated and more land. At this time, Quan Gu must not be able to take care of it. of.

Once you have made a decision, hurry up and find someone to dig a well. This is different from the deep water well in Jinxi's house. Water will seep out if you dig seven or eight meters at most.

I won't know until I dig. This year, at least ten meters can be dug to get water.The top two or three meters of soil are all dry.This kind of situation is unique. You must know that there are only floods and no droughts here.In the early years, it was a rice field.

I didn't go to Jinxi to dig a well in the field, and there was still a lot of work at home. Every morning, I started to water the field, and then collected the ripe vegetables in the field, cut into strips, sliced ​​into slices, steamed and boiled, Pack it up and put it outside to dry. When the vegetables are taken out, they should be covered with a cloth with black eyes and watered a second time.Then it was lunch time, those who drilled wells did not work at noon, because it was too hot.I didn't go out until three o'clock in the afternoon.

Jinxi poured water for the third time, then collected the dried vegetables and sent them to the warehouse in the afternoon.In the evening, I took the family's two donkeys and three sheep out to graze.The grass was withered in places with too much sunlight, so he could only go to places in the mountains with the back of the sun, and it was already dark when he came back.

In July, the closed circuit of Jinxi and his village was broken, and the power went out within a few days. After waiting for half a month, the power supply has not been restored. Not only they have no power here, but even the county. A diesel generator was used for power supply in the former brigade headquarters. There is still some diesel in the village, and it is a tricycle that was supplied to help when the road was repaired last year. There are a lot left. The village head moved the TV at home. Watch TV for an hour.All the people in the village gathered in the compound that day, and it was the first time that Jinxi knew that there were so many people in the village, and it was very lively, as if going back to the time when the production team was back.

Because there is no closed circuit, the antenna can only be used, and two or three stations are received. In fact, even if there are many stations, everyone will aim at the news station.

As soon as the TV was turned on, the courtyard fell silent.A dull tone came from the TV.

The situation in various places is not very good now. The whole country is drought, and there are still earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. Are they completely worldwide disasters?

It is rare to hear expert comments in the news. Most of the time, it is just reporting what is going on there, and then there is the national rescue situation that is broadcast on the news at seven o'clock every day.and temporary emergency measures.

Several large power plants in China have problems, and the specific reasons are not yet clear, because the same is true abroad. Power supply is difficult, many things cannot be produced, cities are paralyzed, and food and water are in short supply. These are all big problems.

It was as if all of a sudden something was wrong.

The more we read the news, the more depressed everyone was. Because of the drought a few days ago, some people in the village asked the village head and secretary to respond to them, and allocated relief funds.Watching TV now, I feel that their village is lucky.

At least there is no shortage of food and water.